Psychology
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Extinguished
A Fire Chief's Memoir by Steve Serbic
What do you do when you lose more than you can afford, when the stable bridge you’ve been crossing suddenly gives way and you find yourself plummeting into a chasm of fear and self-doubt? After losing a dear friend and fellow firefighter to...
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Origins of Professional Psychology in Canada (1925-1965)
Reflections of a Pioneer by Edward C. Webster
Edward C. Webster was one of the earliest vocational guidance and industrial psychologists in Canada. He opened his practice in 1936 and was also a long-time professor of psychology and university administrator. During the last decade of his...
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The Addiction Recovery Handbook
Understanding Addiction and Culture and Creating a Prosperous Human Spirit by Richard W. Clark
What Richard Clark presents in The Addiction Recovery Handbook: Understanding Addiction and Culture is long overdue. Since 1939, Bill Wilson’s important and influential books, Alcoholics Anonymous and AA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, have...
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The Chips Are on the Table
My Journey Towards Recovery by Teddy Assaly
With unflinching honesty, Teddy Assaly shares his journey from self-destructive behaviours to sobriety and recovery. The eldest of eight children, Teddy grew up feeling the pressure to be perfect. Feeling that no matter what he did, he could...
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Depression, Mania, and Psychosis as My Path to Wholeness and Well-Being
by Paul Rubin
Mental health issues are a large part of and embedded in our society, and yet it is continually stigmatized. Furthermore, this stigma can create and reinforce mental health issues in itself. In Depression, Mania, and Psychosis as My Path to...
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Into and Out of the Spin
by Harry M. Anderson
The tall sculpture on the front cover of this book was created from an striking experience the author had in the late 1970s when looking at the news on the TV. In the course of approximately four seconds, a tall young German boy - absent of mind,...
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The Pearl and the Hut Volume II
Anthroposophical Soul Wisdom for Adults with Divorced Parents by Yiana Belkalopolos
The Pearl and the Hut, Volume II explores understandings and higher perceptions around the psychological developments and heart challenges of adult child of divorce. The soul-spiritual insights in Rudolf Steiner's human consciousness philosophy,...
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The Power of Connection
How to process emotion in turbulent times. by Bea Mackay
In life, there are many things we cannot control, leaving us feeling powerless and defeated. However, what you can control is how you deal with your emotions. In The Power of Connection, psychologist Dr. Bea Mackay explores mental health by...
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Tails from the B Side
A Dog’s Journal About the C Word, Life and Human Foibles by J. Nicole Little
Tails from the B Side is a dog's-eyed view of life from our narrator, Beowulf, a lovable and hilarious canine, who give readers his everyday observations of living with an anxious human in a quirky world. As a therapy dog and “reading tutor,”...
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Fumes and Fine Dust
Working Under Chemical Assault: Neurological Effects by Vilma Vitanza
In a sense this book wrote itself. Excerpts from journals written over nineteen years of workplace exposure to chemicals depict the images and struggles within a gradually deteriorating brain that had once been completely functional. The author's...
